Motivational Quotes

Power

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

10.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

11.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

12.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

13.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

14.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

18.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

19.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

20.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

22.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

23.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

24.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

25.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

28.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

30.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

31.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

33.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

34.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

35.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

36.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

37.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

38.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

39.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

41.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Personal power is the ability to take action.